
Richard James, the brother of Sky Sports presenter Polly James, was set to come home to return to his family at their Florida home but felt that something was off. Coming from a business trip in South America, he got concerned after not hearing from his wife for over a day.
To be sure, James contacted authorities to carry out a welfare check on his family at their home in Lakewood Ranch on 26 February. When officers from the Manatee County Sheriff's Office arrived, they discovered the lifeless bodies of James' wife Monika Rubacha and two teenage children Josh James, 14, and Emma James, 11, BBC reported.